Free produce served to food-stamp users at East Nashville grocery store

6:36 PM,
Aug. 18, 2013

Peppers and corn

Written by

Joey Garrison
| The Tennessean

Food-stamp users had their pick of fresh free produce from a market set up outside an East Nashville grocery store on Sunday.

Organic corn, red pepper and watermelon were some of the choices at the parking lot of Piggly Wiggly at 921 Dickerson Pike as part of a food-stamp matching program aimed at getting healthy foods in the hands of needy people.

Under the program, known as Double SNAP, organizers from the social enterprise Good Food for Good People match up to $10 in free produce to participants of the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Double SNAP is made possible thanks to a ...